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Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1932-07-22

Ohio Jewish Chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1932-07-22, page 01

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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR THE JEWISH HOME
Devoted to American
and
Jezvish Ideals
VOL. XV—No. 82
COLUiMJ:tUS, OHIO. JULY 22, 1932"
Per Year $3.00; Per Copy loc
By the Way
By David Schwartz
Not a Best Seller :
The probiiibilities arc that you never havt read •Hibbcn-Jarvis, It is not tlie best kind of summer reading. I dare say I-libbcii-J^irvis will never make a best seller, yet tlic cliances are tbat it will outlast most best sellers. Indeed, Hibhcii-Jarvis is published througli tlie generous subsidy of, no less a person of note than Mr. Adolph Ochs.
You will gather by now that Hibbcn- Jarvis is the latc-Jt volume of tlic Na¬ tional Dictionary of Biography, subsi¬ dized b>; Mr. Oclis. This new vohimc deals with those of the eminent whose names hapiien to hegin in the H's and end m the J's.
.Sinai's Rabbi
¦ Not the best of summer reading, and not particularly heavy in Jewish in: terest—and yet it is not without inter¬ est from' a Jewish standpoint. Some dozen or su Jewisli names arc listed. The first tbat of the late ami dis¬ tinguished rabbi of Sinai pulpit of Chi¬ cago, Emil G. Hirsch. .An interesting sketch by his successor, Rabbi'"Louis 1- Mann.
Of course, that is not to ibe expected in BO serious and so dignified a work aS this official series of volumes, but I do wish, there had been more stressing of the lighter aspects of Rabbi Hirsch. for he was. a mah who touched the entire gamut of human life. His reply for in-
- stance, wben he was asked whether after all, he wasn't just a Unitarian. . !'No, I am a Jewnitarian.''
A Famous Pediatrician The next Jewish character that Hib- ben-Jarvis gives us is the late Dr.^ Abra¬ ham japoby. An, odd combination-po¬ litical gladiator aud baby si^ccialist. One of the German "Forty-eighters" and in¬ ventor of the laryngoscope. Prohably next to Carl Schurz, the most distin¬ guished' of the Forty-Eifihters., The kin¬ ship between the two was evidenced to llie last 'by Jacoby's dying at the home of Schurz. Pediatrician and statesman. A mixture as rare as any of Dr. Jacoby's prescriptions.;
Mary Putnam Jacoby. And then there is the listing of his.
. distinguished wife, Mary Putnam Jacoby- —the sister of Herbert Putnam, Librar-.i ian of Congress. One of the first and; most distinguished of women physicians^' ¦ A really great physician, one, "feels that, without; the handicap of sex, she would have achieved even greater renown in the medical world. , , :
A Mystic Poet The first of the Russian Jews listed is . Naphtali Herz Imber, author pf Hatik-1 vah. The sketch is 'by my friend, the chief I of the Semitic devisJon of the Library of Congress. Dr. Schapiro, I note, touches upon the fact that Imber ,,was much given to mysticism. That is a point on which I had long wanted
\ some comment. A fe\V years ago, rum-
; magiug among old magazines, 'I came i across one'or two essays by. Imber on mystical, subjects—and got the feeling that this phase of Iinbcr's character, has been neglected by his (biographers.
Ihiber in the article I read, conleiidett that the modern Theosophy of Annie Besant and others was of Jewish ¦ de¬ rivation. Kb contended that the founder of the Theosophist Cult. Mme.'Blavatsky a Polish wonian, bad absorbed' her doc¬ trines from the Chassidic Jews of Po-
. land.'
Dr. Schapiro also touches upon Imber's plea that Jewish poets abandon the Jeremiah models and go in for pagan songs of love and wine.
I do not know whether the plea was particularly necessary. It seems to me that our Jewish poets, are not as re¬ moved from those themes as he would have had us ¦believe. The Song of
¦ Songs, as I remember it, is even volup¬ tuous. Heinie's Lorelei might also be included in the. poems of amour—and as for the American love singers of the jazz era—they of course are predomi¬ nantly Jewish. .
Joseph Jacobs .."A sketch of Joseph Jacobs, editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia and. editor nf the American Hebrew, when that paper was in its days of glory.
There is another interesting person¬ ality for you. A folk-lorist and a mathematician. Have you. read by the way. Jacobs' article on Spinoza in the Jewish Encyclopedia? It is easily one of the best things on Spinoza ever writ- .ten.
And now that we are about to cele¬ brate the tHird century of Spinoza's ..birth—to be marked, by the way, by a biographv 'by Lewis Browne, it is fitting to reread it.
Another Jacobs
Ho-Ho! What is this? A sketch of another Joseph Jacobs. This second Joseph Jacobs was a pharmacist. In fact, I knew him personally when I was in knee pants. He was the head of a chain of drucf stores in Georgia. Personally I am a little surprised at his making the grade in a national dictionary of biography, but I suppose the e<litors know better. As a child. I remember he waa particularly noted for being a great fan of the poet. Robert Bums, fie could reel oflf ppem after poem of the famous Bobbie, and was head of the Burns So¬ ciety of the South.
A Jewiah Christian
But the Jewish genius is very versatile. H we have singers of Zion like Imber and singer:; of Burns like,the southern Jacobs, we also have Ludwig Jacoby. Hibben-Jarvis tells us that this Ludwig Jacobv although Jewish born was a lead¬ ing Methodist preacher. So zealous in his Christian faith, that when "rowdies attempted to close his meetings by block¬ ing, the entrance of his chapel with iContimied on page 3)
Fred Lazarus, Jr., Re-elected
President of Jewish
Orphan Home
Further Budget Keduction la Effected at the Clcvchmd Orphanage
OLFVELAN'D —A further cut of' iii;i;i,U(JO, reducing the budget of Belle- faire. the Cleveland Jewisli Orphan Home, from ?180,000 to *l'17,0()0, was iiiadu by directors of tlie institiition at Ibcir aiinuar nieeting, Sunday. July 17th.
I'Ved Lazarus, Jr.. president, said after tho meeting that the reduction was ac¬ complished chiefly 'by cutting salaries and that every effort was being made to uphold the standards in caring for chil¬ dren. Sunday's is the second salary cut at the institution since January Is't.
Superintendent, Michael Sharlitt in liis annual report quoted the folknving letter from Charles .Adams, campaign director for tbe Cleveland Comiminity Fund :
"I was, amazed and gratified with the wonderful plan.t you have out there and the wisdom with which it has been built. 1 know of nothing in Cleveland, that compares with- it, at least, I certainly liave seen nothing like it myself. That I [ircsunK' is natural because, of course, it is the newest thing that 'has becii erected for the purpose for vvluch it is intended and naturally has had brought into it all the experience of other in- .stitutions and your own as well. It made a very profound impression ui>on me.
"The institution seems to have antici¬ pated so many things that are good for its people whom it is trying to serve. Whether they know it or not, these boys and girls that are there and will be there from year to year, are having a privilege that in after years they may
fireciate even more than the>: do now.
"L was impressed with the quality of the personnel in youi" institution. Both men and women seem to be high grade people who certainly have the interest of their children at hea,rt and all in all tliere was a homey atmdspliere about the place that I shall not soon forget, if I ever tlo."
I'Vcd Lazarus, Jr., Columbus, was elected president of the Board; Adolph Finsterwald, Detroit, vice president; Al¬ fred A. Benesch, treasurer general fund; Max E. Meisel, treasurer, sinking fund; Edna Belle pianiond, recording and fi¬ nancial secretary; Al'fred .Schultz, as¬ sistant - secretary. Sharlitt ._was re¬ elected' Ruperinitendent. of the institution and Jack Girick assistant superintendent. Miss Ruth" Cohen was named field, sec¬ retary.
Several hundred gracUiates of Belle- faire returned for the annual reunion. Louis Schreiber of Qeveland, was elected president of the Alumni Association to succeed George I. \yirpcl of Chicago.
The following directors representing the districts served by the Home renewed tJiefr respective bledges to assist in ob- taininu: the Stipport of their respective commrties to meet the anticipated deficit of $2(J.<IOO: Louis Loeb. Akron; Harry Kiisbaum and D. S. Luntz, Canton; Herbert R. Bloch, Julius W. Freiberg, Leonard R. Minster, Cincinnati; J. H. Altman; A. A. Benesch, A. J. Bialoskv, Mrs. S. H. Cohn, Mrs. Jac L. Einstein, Geo. W. -Furth, Mrs. E. L. Geismer; Sam'l Grass, Frank E. Joseph, Mrs. S. Kqrach, Mrs. Martin A. Marks. M.. E: Meisel, and L. II. Schwarzenberg, Cleve¬ land ; Fred Lazarusv ' Jr., Columbus; Harn.' Lehman, Dayton, Saiiuicl T. Rice, Hamilton; Lou M. Frank, Toledo, and Clarence L Strouss. Youngstown, Ohib.
I. S. Anoff. Isadore Ghieck, G. M. I'osner and William Sultan, Chicago, ni., Ralph Clark. Fort Wayne: Arthur Simon, South Bend and Sol S. Kiser. Ti'/lianapolis. Ind., Eniil Mayer. St. Louis. Mo.. Trnn Stalmaster, Oniaha. Xebr,, Saniuel Goldstein of Lorain, Ohio, presi^ dent of the District Grand Lodge No. 2 of the, B'nai B'rith, addressed the meet-
ABOUT JEWS
By JOSEPH LEFTWICH .
PICNIC SUNDAY
The annual picnic of the Women's Pioneers of Palestine, will be held at Olentangy Park on Stniday, August 21st. All members and their friends, as well as the comniiinity are cordially invited. Remember to reserve this date-r-August 2lst. ,
It is amazing.the nuniber of -ways in 1 which the Jewish (piestion keeps -crop¬ ping Ull ill all sorts of places and in all sorts of connections. And I am hard put to say which is worse—the smug, complacent philosemitism that speaks in sugary platitudes about Jews being tlie ideal, people, forever sinned against, and never sinning, denying us all humanity, and the right to human frailty, thus set¬ ting us an impossible standard; or the blind demagogy of a Hitler, who, con- ceiviir.^ that JNlarxism is bad, and dis¬ covering that Marx and Lasalle and some others arc of; Jewish birth, and be¬ lieving that big banks are bad, aiid find¬ ing that certain bankers are jfews, forth¬ with goes on the stump calling for the exterminating of all Jews, as if we were each and every one of us responsible for what Marx wrote aud the Rothschilds do.
I come across a copy of the "Rail- lyay Review," a trade union paper pul>.- lishcd by the British Railway Workers, who made Jimmy Thomas a Cabinet Miiiistcr, and among various whimsical hnisiiigs 'by one MacAdam (clearly a descendant of the father of the human i^acc), I find this gem. of so-called "Logic from the Bothy."
"I don't suppose any of you could tell me why the Jewish race is. the most hated, the best loved, and the most courted race on earth, and to keep you from guessing, 1 would just state that the reason is that the Jews planted the roofs of the world's evils, and they have kept the. world sucking at those roots ever since they were plantc<l. The roots of the world's evils are the world's banks, and once those who produce the wealth, whicli the banks trade in, exercise con¬ trol over that wealth, the roots will die because of lack of nourishment."
Poor people hate Jews because some bankers are Jews; rich people hate Jews because some Communists and Social¬ ists are Jews. '^
And anything in the world that unpopular, somehow or other manages, to get a Jewish' angle.
Here is de Valei-a, for instance, be¬ coming the new bogy man of the British Empire, and immediately there chorus of ¦'¦Jew" from a nuiiiibcr of people who seem to be convinced that if you scratch anyone you don't like, or who has done you harm, you're sure to find something Jewish in him. "
St. John Ervuie, who really ought to know better, writes that "no one who knews Mr. deValera denies that, he is a Jew, but if anyone did, Mr. deValera's features would speak for themselves."
And T. J. O'Connor, K. C, M. P. declares that "Ireland always seems to achieve bad leadership,in a moment of difficulty,- and at this critical moment they have put a Portuguese Jew in the position of leader."
St. John Ervine goes on to explain that "a man may be, a Jew and a Span¬ iard, or an Englishman or.a German, or a Portuguese, or an Irishman, or an Abyssinian," pointing out that "there is ¦a group of Jews in Abyssinia w/ho are as black as your hat."
That is all very well, and very true, if you mean that the Jews are citizens of their countries, and belong to tbe Jewish faith. But when St. John Ervine goes on to add that "one of the best known Irish play^ers is an Irish Cath olic Jew." what exactly does he mean'?,
If a man no longer of the Jewish faith is still a Jew, of the Jewish race, how can he be a jew ami a Spaniard or an Fnilishman, etc.?
De Valera was born in New York. His father was a Spanish Catholic, and his mother an Irish -Catholic, and he was educated at the Christian Brothers School at Charlcville, in the United States. ¦
Jewries of All the World to
Be Represented at
Conference
Voliner Soc. Picnic Aug. 14
The Voliner Society will hold its aniinal picnic on Sunday, August 14th,' at . Edgewater Park. Free admission, swimming, dancing and games. Watch the Chronicle for further details.—The Committee.
And now wlieii the Eucharist Congress is iieing held in Dublin, bis capital, de Valera, the Irish Free State Premier, or President as they prefer to call him there, is constantly at tbe .wlc of the Papal Legale, a Catholic of Catholics.
.'\lany Spanish Catholics have Jewish bltind ill tbem; and it is possible that Mr. Si. Jolui Ervine is right when he claims lliat de Valera's father had; but that de Valera is, therefore, a Jew!
Unless St. John l^rviiic agrees with tlie race antisemitcs, the Hitlcrists, the Awakening Magyars aiul the "Patriot" iTowd, , which I hardly credit, that I "Jewry means not only a confession of | faith, but a special race, too; there are many christened Jews who belong, of cnurse, not lo the Jewish religious com¬ munity, but, nevertheless, remain Jews, not by their faith but by their race."
But if this is so, why do the Christian churches make so much fiiss about con- vertinfj Jews, and why do Jews so stiff- neckedly resist? [f faith doesn't mat¬ ter and race is all there is to it, what difference- docs h make whether the Jew is a Judaist, or a Christian; or a Moslem, for that matter?
"The only way to face tbe Jewish prrblum." says , the ,Rcv. Dr. James Black, at the General Assembly of the Church of, Scotland, "is to Christianize the Jews. Iiecause if we do not Chris¬ tianize hiiii, the Jew remains an unas¬ similated lump in oUr body politic, and will be there as a desperate menace until h'i is wiped ont."
"Wiped out," mark you 1 Would yon believe it? Dr. Black tells us that he has been told by people "that, the Jews should pay for their own cou' vcrsionist work." Think of it! I
"If the JcM' wants to become a Chris-I tian," they say, "the Jewish' Comrnunity should itself maintain a Christianizing mission." , ' ¦
It- sccins too good to spoil by com¬ ment.
Our answer. Dr. Black says, is that we must send our missionaries to the Jews bcc;iuse the Jews will pairanixc m unless we Christianize the Jew."
.'^nd here follows a long story about Jews ,"drifting away from the, syna¬ gogue into paganism.". . ,
Is it true, as he claims, that "Jewish racialism and Jewish nationalism are with a fierce fervour taking the place of the old Jewish faith in ^d"?
Racialism certainly is rearing its ugly head not only jiniong Jews. Tt seems to be the modern failing. And the worst excesses of misguided faith—of Mo bainmedaniRtn .that carved its way to domination by the sword, of the In- ftuisition that burned the heretic, the Tew, the .Moslem, the Protestant, the Infidel; the pogroms to "wipe out the slayers of Christ," pale beside the threats of the racial ' doctrinaires—'Hitlerist*!, awakcninfr. Magyars, Cnzists—who ste salvation in biological slaughter. /,
Jews, too, are becoming inclined to lay stress nowadays on racial Jewishness aoid some .speeches, by antiscmites like that of a Hitlcrist Deputy in the Prua sian Parliament, the other day, urging the Jews to go to Palestine and build ut> a Jewish nation there, thus removing the Jewish influence from Germam, niight well rouse an echo in some Zion ist breasts, while the Socialist Deputy who took up the cudgels for the Jeus at that same sittilig, and argued that the German Jews are as gootl Germans as anv other, distinguished from, the rest onlv by their religion, is likely to be at¬ tacked by them as an assimilationist for his pains.
And as one mav learn From the faults and the self-castigation of others, per¬ haps it may be worth. while quoting something that appeared recently In the (Cnntvuicd on paijc 3)
Part of the United States delegation Is Now on Us Way To Geneva
NEW YORK—The Jewries of eight¬ een countries, including the United Stales, have elected ur arc now elect¬ ing dclcgales to the forthcoming .Sessions oi the World Jewish Conference lo be held on .-Vnyust Mth at Geneva, Switz¬ erland, according to infurmation re¬ ceived at the oITices of the American Jewish Congress from Dr. Nahum violdmanu of Berlin.
At the weekly meeting of the Admin¬ istrative Commiltee of the American Jewish, Congress, held last night under the chairmanship of Hon. Nathan D. Periman, Abraham IL Cohen, the.Ex¬ ecutive Director o.f the Congress, re¬ ported on a scries of communication's which liad been received from Dr. Nabuni Goldmann of Berlin, indicating that the tallowing countries have elected or arc noW' electing delegates to the sessions of the World Conference.: .Austria, Bulgaria, Czccho-JSlovakia, Eng¬ land, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, lialy, Latvia, Lithuania,; Palestine, Po¬ land, Roumania, Spain, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. He also reported that in ¦.<;ome of the East European countries tlicTe are now being conducted special regional meetings for iJie election of delegates to the Conference. . '
Tlie Vaad Leumi, the Jewish National Council and the recognized governing body of the Jewish community in Pal- ei^tiiie, has just comjiletcd the official election of its representatives- to the Conference. The Italian Government has officially given its sanction to the ftalian Jewish community to be repre¬ sented at the sessions in Geneva. It is expected that a number of additional countries, es|>ecially in South America and South Africa, will yet be heard from regarding their, delegation to the Con¬ ference.
Invitations to the Conference at Ge¬ neva were issued only to national and representative organizations in the prin¬ cipal couiuries of the world which arc inhabited by a substantial Jewish ijopu- lation.
A part- of the American delegation to the Geneva Conference has already left for Europe, the rest of the delegation is expected to leave on or before Augiist Uth; On Monday eixning. July 18th, the oflicers and Administrative Committee of the Congress tendered a farewell reception, to the American delegation at the Waldorf-Astoria
As I See It
By A. M. N.
Do You Know That:
1—Samuel L. Rothafel of New York is often called the "Jewish Barnum." Do you know why?
2—Alfred Segal of Cincinnati is con¬ sidered the tiest all around reporter in the United Stales. He gets my vote also. 3—Walter Lippman of the Neiv York Hcralil'Trihrnic was recently referred to hy President Hoover as America's out¬ standing publicist. And luiw he can pub¬ licize 1
•1—The Ohio Ji-:wish Cukonicle re¬ cently completed its lOth year of service to the Jews of Columbns and Central Ohio. Boy, how lime files!
.'f-^The CiiKONiri.K i.s determined to continue its service to the Jewish people with unabated zeal and enthusiasm, even though it has been "hard hit" by the depression We arc optimistic about the future. Prosperity is just around the corner.
(i—You can help to tide the Ciihoniclf. over this period of depression by paying your sub.qcription regularly aiid recom- ineiiding the paper as a splendid advertis¬ ing medium. We can use all the .coop¬ eration at ypnr command.
I have just learned that Dr. S. Mar- .EK'shes, editor- oi The Day, has accepted the challenge of Chaim Nachman Bialik, dean of Hebrew-poets, to appear before a court of honor to decide BJalik's charge that Margoshes, after a recent visit to Russia, suppressed documents handed to him relating to the persecu¬ tion of Jews bv the Soviets. Dr. Mar¬ goshes asks, ho.wever, .that the court be held in New York and not in Tel Aviv, as suggested by the poet.
Jack Findling of Salt Lake City was recently elected President of District No, 4. B'nai B'rith, at the closing session of its sixty-ninth annual convention at. the Hotel Utah.. Salt Lake City. The delegates lo tbe convention were wel¬ comed by Mayor Louis Marcus; Mayor of Salt Lake City, the first Jew to hold that ofificc.
PALESTINIAN ItABBI IS VISITOR HERE
Religious Leader Is Touring Country For United Syn¬ agogue
NEW YORK.—Preparations for the visit of Rabbi Samuel M. Cohen of New York, Executive Director of the United Synagogue of America, are being made in different parts of the country. Rabbi Cohen is scheduled to tour a number of cities in connection with the United Synagogue movement and will stop at Chattanooga, Birmingham, New Orleans, Ei Paso, Tacoma, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles and San Francisco. In all these centers he will confer with Jewish lead¬ ers and deliver addresses in the principal Conservative congregations.
Rabbi Cohen began his' tour Imme¬ diately following the Twentieth An¬ nual Convention of the United Syna¬ gogue of America, which took place at Atlantic City, N, J. from May l-i to 17th'. HIsi principal stop will be at
?.os .^ngeIes. where he has been invited to address tlie annual convention of the Pacific Coast Branch of the United Synagogue of America at which dele¬ gates from Jewish communities through¬ out the Pacific Coast will be present.
Rabbi Cohen is now completing fifteen years service as the Executive Director of the United Synagogue of'America. In ad<Ution to this vvork of supervising the extensive religious and communal work throughout the United States and Canada connected with the United Synagogue movement, he has authored a number of educational br'ochures and volumes, chief of which are a Manual for Jewish Men's Clubs and a new Curriculum for Religious Schools.
SISTERHOOD PICNIC
gels and tliat many of them' sustain seri¬ ous injuries.
The police deny that such occurrences have taken place and in proof ofifcr the alleged" fact that no sufferers have ever lodged complaints with the police depart¬ ment.
The Board of Directors nf the Agudath Achim Sisterhood met Monday evening at the home of Mrs. I. Nutis. Plans were formulated for its annual picnic which is to be held on Sunday, August 14th, at Olentangy Park. Mrs. S. Topolosky is chairman in charge of the arrangements.
Watch the Chronicle for further de¬ tails concerntiig this event.
Charges Police Fail lo Aid Jews Seeking Protection
WARSAW—(J.T.A.^)~HSystematic at¬ tacks upon the Jews in Warsaw's public places, particularly in the Ujazdowa Al- iees, are reported by the "Haint" and the paper charges that the police refuse to answer the cries for help by the Jews.
The i>aper asserts _ that Jewish pas- sersby are attacked with sticks and cud-
Zion Lodge Donates Books to Columbus Pubic Library
A recent action of Zion Lodge, B'nai B'rith, was to "appropriate twenty-fivii dollars to donate hooks on Jewish sulb- jtcts to the Columbus Public Library, a donation which was gratefully accepted by the librarian. The committee ap¬ pointed, consisting of Rabbi Lee J. Lev¬ inger, Rabhi Nathan Zelizer and- Dr. B. W. Abramson, selected ten works which they felt would be of unusual value, Ixith to Jews and non-Jews who are*in- terested in Jewish topics. The ibooks have now arrived, and will shortly be in¬ stalled in the library. The list of works follows: Norman Bentwich: "England in Palestine"; Joseph H. Hertz; "A Book of Jewish Thoughts"; Isaac Htisik: "History of Medieval Jewish Philoso¬ phy" ; Morris Joseph: "Judaism as Creed and Life"; Joseph Klausner: "Jesus of Nazareth"; E. E. and L, J. Lt-vinger: "The Story of the Jew"; Lee J. Levinger: "History of the Jews in the United States"; William Rosenau: "Jewish Ceremonial Institutions and Customs"; Abram L. Sachar: "A History of the Jews"; Meyer Waxman: "A History of Jewish Literature."
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Ualibi Nanum lien Ilorim
Rabbi N. B. Horim of Palestine, is a visitor this week in Cohimbus. He is here as the personal representative of Chief Rabbi Kook of Palestine and is endeavoring to enlist the support of the local Jewish community for the activ¬ ities of the Palestian Academy.
The Universal Yeshiva which Rabbi Horim rejiresents has- now the respon¬ sible task of saving hundreds of tahnudi- cal students in Russia from the hands of destruction by bringing them to Palestine where they may continue with their stu<Iies. This institution has already pro¬ cured permits and passage for a con¬ siderable number of scholarly students but cannot continue with this work on accountof its present depleted treasury. , It is hoped, therefore, that many Jews in America who are interested ih this splendid work of Jewish culture, will come to the aid of this worthy institution in Palestine.
Simon J. Lubin, of Sacramento, Cali¬ fornia, has been named chairman of the. State Department of Commerce.by Gov^ ernor Rolph. Mr. Lubin has been ac-. live in business and social welfare work for many years., He is' the founder of ¦ the State Commission of Immigration and Housing of California: president of the Sacramento Region Citizens' Council, Inc.:. vice, president of the California Conference of Social Work. and. mem¬ ber of the Sacramento City School Board.
Mrs. .'Vrchi'bald Silverman of Provi¬ dence. Rhode Island, delivered tbe Inde¬ pendence I^^y address at the exercises held in Tel Aviv under the auspices of the Palestine American Je\vish. Asso¬ ciation. Addresses were also delivered hv Mayor Dizcngoff and Nathan Kap-' Ian. of Chicago. American Consul Gen¬ eral Knabenshiie and his staff atteii^led the exercises,
The two daughters of Enianucl Hertz, author of the much discussed "Abraham Lincoln" recently passed their bar ex¬ aminations and are now both practising law in their father's ofiice.
Edward A. Filene, prominent nier- Lhant of Boston, was recently awarded the Order of the Lion by the Govern¬ ment of Czecho-Slovakia, according to a di patch just received from Prague. The presentation was made- by President Misaryk at Prajgnc in the presence of I,,distinguished gathering. The Order of the Lion was founded in I92i} and. is awarded only to foreigners who have merited recognition from the Czecho- slovakian Republic in the field of civic activities. '
Many newspai)ermen are predicting tbat the next governor of New York State will be none other than Herbert H. Lehman. Alfred E. Smith, a close friend, .has alreacly pledged Lehman his support and will soon commence to tour New York State for him. . If elected, Lehman will he the first Jewish goverr nor the Empire State has" ever had. It is interesting to note that Lehman is also the choice of Franklin D. Roose¬ velt with whom he has been associated in various capacities for maiiyi years.
A. Z. A. Notes
Si Kahn, Ben B'rith and A. Z. A. Ad¬ visor, was chosen to coach the A. Z. A. recreation ball team at a meeting held at the Schonthal Center, Tuesday even¬ ing, July lOlh. Mr. Kahn will accom¬ pany the team to Dayton, Sunday, July 2-lth, where the Columbus A. 2. A. team will play Dayton. The Columbusites are eager lo bring back with them a large trophy which is being offered, y''
Irving M. Gertner, president of the Columbus Chapter of Alcph Zadik Alcph, returned Wednesday from Winnipeg, Canada, where as a, delegate, he at¬ tended the international convention of A. z: A.
Palestinian A]rt Objects at Columbus Gallery
By special retiuest of the ofiicials of the Columbus Art Gallery, the collec¬ tion of Palesthii^n art objects will be- left on display there until September first. Originally, the display was to be held only for the month of-June, but it. attracted so much attention that the lenders consented to leave it through the summer.
The collection consists of a number of water colors by Ralph Fanning, Pro¬ fessor of Fine Arts at the Ohio State University, who was in Palestine two years ago, and four 'cases of wood work, brass, textiles and books, loaned by va¬ rious Columbus people. Three of these cases are on the main floor of the Gal¬ lery and one case with the Fanning paintings in the basement.
The exhibit was arranged by the O. S. U. chapter of Avukah, together with, the Hillel Foundation. 'Visitiiifi' hours at the gallery are ten to five on week days and two to six on Sundays, Free every day except Monday,
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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR THE JEWISH HOME
Devoted to American
and
Jezvish Ideals
VOL. XV—No. 82
COLUiMJ:tUS, OHIO. JULY 22, 1932"
Per Year $3.00; Per Copy loc
By the Way
By David Schwartz
Not a Best Seller :
The probiiibilities arc that you never havt read •Hibbcn-Jarvis, It is not tlie best kind of summer reading. I dare say I-libbcii-J^irvis will never make a best seller, yet tlic cliances are tbat it will outlast most best sellers. Indeed, Hibhcii-Jarvis is published througli tlie generous subsidy of, no less a person of note than Mr. Adolph Ochs.
You will gather by now that Hibbcn- Jarvis is the latc-Jt volume of tlic Na¬ tional Dictionary of Biography, subsi¬ dized b>; Mr. Oclis. This new vohimc deals with those of the eminent whose names hapiien to hegin in the H's and end m the J's.
.Sinai's Rabbi
¦ Not the best of summer reading, and not particularly heavy in Jewish in: terest—and yet it is not without inter¬ est from' a Jewish standpoint. Some dozen or su Jewisli names arc listed. The first tbat of the late ami dis¬ tinguished rabbi of Sinai pulpit of Chi¬ cago, Emil G. Hirsch. .An interesting sketch by his successor, Rabbi'"Louis 1- Mann.
Of course, that is not to ibe expected in BO serious and so dignified a work aS this official series of volumes, but I do wish, there had been more stressing of the lighter aspects of Rabbi Hirsch. for he was. a mah who touched the entire gamut of human life. His reply for in-
- stance, wben he was asked whether after all, he wasn't just a Unitarian. . !'No, I am a Jewnitarian.''
A Famous Pediatrician The next Jewish character that Hib- ben-Jarvis gives us is the late Dr.^ Abra¬ ham japoby. An, odd combination-po¬ litical gladiator aud baby si^ccialist. One of the German "Forty-eighters" and in¬ ventor of the laryngoscope. Prohably next to Carl Schurz, the most distin¬ guished' of the Forty-Eifihters., The kin¬ ship between the two was evidenced to llie last 'by Jacoby's dying at the home of Schurz. Pediatrician and statesman. A mixture as rare as any of Dr. Jacoby's prescriptions.;
Mary Putnam Jacoby. And then there is the listing of his.
. distinguished wife, Mary Putnam Jacoby- —the sister of Herbert Putnam, Librar-.i ian of Congress. One of the first and; most distinguished of women physicians^' ¦ A really great physician, one, "feels that, without; the handicap of sex, she would have achieved even greater renown in the medical world. , , :
A Mystic Poet The first of the Russian Jews listed is . Naphtali Herz Imber, author pf Hatik-1 vah. The sketch is 'by my friend, the chief I of the Semitic devisJon of the Library of Congress. Dr. Schapiro, I note, touches upon the fact that Imber ,,was much given to mysticism. That is a point on which I had long wanted
\ some comment. A fe\V years ago, rum-
; magiug among old magazines, 'I came i across one'or two essays by. Imber on mystical, subjects—and got the feeling that this phase of Iinbcr's character, has been neglected by his (biographers.
Ihiber in the article I read, conleiidett that the modern Theosophy of Annie Besant and others was of Jewish ¦ de¬ rivation. Kb contended that the founder of the Theosophist Cult. Mme.'Blavatsky a Polish wonian, bad absorbed' her doc¬ trines from the Chassidic Jews of Po-
. land.'
Dr. Schapiro also touches upon Imber's plea that Jewish poets abandon the Jeremiah models and go in for pagan songs of love and wine.
I do not know whether the plea was particularly necessary. It seems to me that our Jewish poets, are not as re¬ moved from those themes as he would have had us ¦believe. The Song of
¦ Songs, as I remember it, is even volup¬ tuous. Heinie's Lorelei might also be included in the. poems of amour—and as for the American love singers of the jazz era—they of course are predomi¬ nantly Jewish. .
Joseph Jacobs .."A sketch of Joseph Jacobs, editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia and. editor nf the American Hebrew, when that paper was in its days of glory.
There is another interesting person¬ ality for you. A folk-lorist and a mathematician. Have you. read by the way. Jacobs' article on Spinoza in the Jewish Encyclopedia? It is easily one of the best things on Spinoza ever writ- .ten.
And now that we are about to cele¬ brate the tHird century of Spinoza's ..birth—to be marked, by the way, by a biographv 'by Lewis Browne, it is fitting to reread it.
Another Jacobs
Ho-Ho! What is this? A sketch of another Joseph Jacobs. This second Joseph Jacobs was a pharmacist. In fact, I knew him personally when I was in knee pants. He was the head of a chain of drucf stores in Georgia. Personally I am a little surprised at his making the grade in a national dictionary of biography, but I suppose the eon me.
"The institution seems to have antici¬ pated so many things that are good for its people whom it is trying to serve. Whether they know it or not, these boys and girls that are there and will be there from year to year, are having a privilege that in after years they may
fireciate even more than the>: do now.
"L was impressed with the quality of the personnel in youi" institution. Both men and women seem to be high grade people who certainly have the interest of their children at hea,rt and all in all tliere was a homey atmdspliere about the place that I shall not soon forget, if I ever tlo."
I'Vcd Lazarus, Jr., Columbus, was elected president of the Board; Adolph Finsterwald, Detroit, vice president; Al¬ fred A. Benesch, treasurer general fund; Max E. Meisel, treasurer, sinking fund; Edna Belle pianiond, recording and fi¬ nancial secretary; Al'fred .Schultz, as¬ sistant - secretary. Sharlitt ._was re¬ elected' Ruperinitendent. of the institution and Jack Girick assistant superintendent. Miss Ruth" Cohen was named field, sec¬ retary.
Several hundred gracUiates of Belle- faire returned for the annual reunion. Louis Schreiber of Qeveland, was elected president of the Alumni Association to succeed George I. \yirpcl of Chicago.
The following directors representing the districts served by the Home renewed tJiefr respective bledges to assist in ob- taininu: the Stipport of their respective commrties to meet the anticipated deficit of $2(J..- lishcd by the British Railway Workers, who made Jimmy Thomas a Cabinet Miiiistcr, and among various whimsical hnisiiigs 'by one MacAdam (clearly a descendant of the father of the human i^acc), I find this gem. of so-called "Logic from the Bothy."
"I don't suppose any of you could tell me why the Jewish race is. the most hated, the best loved, and the most courted race on earth, and to keep you from guessing, 1 would just state that the reason is that the Jews planted the roofs of the world's evils, and they have kept the. world sucking at those roots ever since they were plantc a Jewish nation there, thus removing the Jewish influence from Germam, niight well rouse an echo in some Zion ist breasts, while the Socialist Deputy who took up the cudgels for the Jeus at that same sittilig, and argued that the German Jews are as gootl Germans as anv other, distinguished from, the rest onlv by their religion, is likely to be at¬ tacked by them as an assimilationist for his pains.
And as one mav learn From the faults and the self-castigation of others, per¬ haps it may be worth. while quoting something that appeared recently In the (Cnntvuicd on paijc 3)
Part of the United States delegation Is Now on Us Way To Geneva
NEW YORK—The Jewries of eight¬ een countries, including the United Stales, have elected ur arc now elect¬ ing dclcgales to the forthcoming .Sessions oi the World Jewish Conference lo be held on .-Vnyust Mth at Geneva, Switz¬ erland, according to infurmation re¬ ceived at the oITices of the American Jewish Congress from Dr. Nahum violdmanu of Berlin.
At the weekly meeting of the Admin¬ istrative Commiltee of the American Jewish, Congress, held last night under the chairmanship of Hon. Nathan D. Periman, Abraham IL Cohen, the.Ex¬ ecutive Director o.f the Congress, re¬ ported on a scries of communication's which liad been received from Dr. Nabuni Goldmann of Berlin, indicating that the tallowing countries have elected or arc noW' electing delegates to the sessions of the World Conference.: .Austria, Bulgaria, Czccho-JSlovakia, Eng¬ land, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, lialy, Latvia, Lithuania,; Palestine, Po¬ land, Roumania, Spain, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. He also reported that in ¦.ecially in South America and South Africa, will yet be heard from regarding their, delegation to the Con¬ ference.
Invitations to the Conference at Ge¬ neva were issued only to national and representative organizations in the prin¬ cipal couiuries of the world which arc inhabited by a substantial Jewish ijopu- lation.
A part- of the American delegation to the Geneva Conference has already left for Europe, the rest of the delegation is expected to leave on or before Augiist Uth; On Monday eixning. July 18th, the oflicers and Administrative Committee of the Congress tendered a farewell reception, to the American delegation at the Waldorf-Astoria
As I See It
By A. M. N.
Do You Know That:
1—Samuel L. Rothafel of New York is often called the "Jewish Barnum." Do you know why?
2—Alfred Segal of Cincinnati is con¬ sidered the tiest all around reporter in the United Stales. He gets my vote also. 3—Walter Lippman of the Neiv York Hcralil'Trihrnic was recently referred to hy President Hoover as America's out¬ standing publicist. And luiw he can pub¬ licize 1
•1—The Ohio Ji-:wish Cukonicle re¬ cently completed its lOth year of service to the Jews of Columbns and Central Ohio. Boy, how lime files!
.'f-^The CiiKONiri.K i.s determined to continue its service to the Jewish people with unabated zeal and enthusiasm, even though it has been "hard hit" by the depression We arc optimistic about the future. Prosperity is just around the corner.
(i—You can help to tide the Ciihoniclf. over this period of depression by paying your sub.qcription regularly aiid recom- ineiiding the paper as a splendid advertis¬ ing medium. We can use all the .coop¬ eration at ypnr command.
I have just learned that Dr. S. Mar- .EK'shes, editor- oi The Day, has accepted the challenge of Chaim Nachman Bialik, dean of Hebrew-poets, to appear before a court of honor to decide BJalik's charge that Margoshes, after a recent visit to Russia, suppressed documents handed to him relating to the persecu¬ tion of Jews bv the Soviets. Dr. Mar¬ goshes asks, ho.wever, .that the court be held in New York and not in Tel Aviv, as suggested by the poet.
Jack Findling of Salt Lake City was recently elected President of District No, 4. B'nai B'rith, at the closing session of its sixty-ninth annual convention at. the Hotel Utah.. Salt Lake City. The delegates lo tbe convention were wel¬ comed by Mayor Louis Marcus; Mayor of Salt Lake City, the first Jew to hold that ofificc.
PALESTINIAN ItABBI IS VISITOR HERE
Religious Leader Is Touring Country For United Syn¬ agogue
NEW YORK.—Preparations for the visit of Rabbi Samuel M. Cohen of New York, Executive Director of the United Synagogue of America, are being made in different parts of the country. Rabbi Cohen is scheduled to tour a number of cities in connection with the United Synagogue movement and will stop at Chattanooga, Birmingham, New Orleans, Ei Paso, Tacoma, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles and San Francisco. In all these centers he will confer with Jewish lead¬ ers and deliver addresses in the principal Conservative congregations.
Rabbi Cohen began his' tour Imme¬ diately following the Twentieth An¬ nual Convention of the United Syna¬ gogue of America, which took place at Atlantic City, N, J. from May l-i to 17th'. HIsi principal stop will be at
?.os .^ngeIes. where he has been invited to address tlie annual convention of the Pacific Coast Branch of the United Synagogue of America at which dele¬ gates from Jewish communities through¬ out the Pacific Coast will be present.
Rabbi Cohen is now completing fifteen years service as the Executive Director of the United Synagogue of'America. In adaper asserts _ that Jewish pas- sersby are attacked with sticks and cud-
Zion Lodge Donates Books to Columbus Pubic Library
A recent action of Zion Lodge, B'nai B'rith, was to "appropriate twenty-fivii dollars to donate hooks on Jewish sulb- jtcts to the Columbus Public Library, a donation which was gratefully accepted by the librarian. The committee ap¬ pointed, consisting of Rabbi Lee J. Lev¬ inger, Rabhi Nathan Zelizer and- Dr. B. W. Abramson, selected ten works which they felt would be of unusual value, Ixith to Jews and non-Jews who are*in- terested in Jewish topics. The ibooks have now arrived, and will shortly be in¬ stalled in the library. The list of works follows: Norman Bentwich: "England in Palestine"; Joseph H. Hertz; "A Book of Jewish Thoughts"; Isaac Htisik: "History of Medieval Jewish Philoso¬ phy" ; Morris Joseph: "Judaism as Creed and Life"; Joseph Klausner: "Jesus of Nazareth"; E. E. and L, J. Lt-vinger: "The Story of the Jew"; Lee J. Levinger: "History of the Jews in the United States"; William Rosenau: "Jewish Ceremonial Institutions and Customs"; Abram L. Sachar: "A History of the Jews"; Meyer Waxman: "A History of Jewish Literature."
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